Trident Racing

Mike Conway driving for Trident at the Silverstone round of the 2008 GP2 Series season.

After a rapid formation, Trident secured a place on the 2006 GP2 entry list, represented by former Formula One driver Gianmaria Bruni and rookie Andreas Zuber. It was one of three teams that had lodged requests for the thirteenth entry that was made available for that season onwards. GP2's organiser Bruno Michel commented: "Trident Racing put forward a proposal which promised strong sporting and engineering excellence."

Trident's first year of competition was competitive against more experienced opposition. Bruni provided two race wins, together with three pole positions and two fastest race laps, whilst Zuber secured a single race win. In the teams' championship standings, Trident ended the year in sixth place overall. For the 2007 season, Trident chose F3 Euro Series race winner Kohei Hirate from Japan and World Series by Renault front-runner Pastor Maldonado from Venezuela, who suffered a training injury mid-season and was replaced by Ricardo Risatti and then Sergio Hernández. Before his injury, Maldonado secured pole position and the race victory in the series' single race at Monaco, and secured eleventh place in the drivers' championship despite missing the final eight races of the season. His team-mates struggled, however, dropping Trident to tenth in the teams' championship.

Trident driver Adrian Zaugg leads iSport's Davide Valsecchi at the Spa-Francorchamps round of the 2010 season.

Trident's 2008 drivers were Mike Conway and Ho-Pin Tung. The team's best result again came at Monaco, with Conway leading Tung home for a Trident one-two in the sprint race. Both drivers were unable to replicate this performance elsewhere, but Trident improved to ninth in the teams' championship. For 2009, the team changed its driver line-up to Ricardo Teixeira and Davide Rigon, with Rodolfo González deputising for Rigon for a single round of the championship. The trio scored a mere three points between them, resulting in Trident finishing twelfth and last in the teams' championship. The 2010 season saw a slight improvement as the team improved to eleventh overall; the drivers for the year were Adrian Zaugg and Johnny Cecotto Jr., the latter of whom was replaced first by Edoardo Piscopo and then Federico Leo.

Rodolfo González driving for Trident at the Monza round of the 2011 season.

Trident enjoyed something of a renaissance in 2011, with new lead driver Stefano Coletti winning two races en route to eleventh in the drivers' championship, despite suffering a back injury at the penultimate round of the season at Spa-Francorchamps which saw him ruled out of the finale; he was replaced by Monegasque compatriot Stéphane Richelmi. In the other car, the returning González failed to score. For the 2012 season, Richelmi was retained and joined by Julián Leal: the duo scored 31 points between them under the new scoring system, but Trident slipped to tenth in the teams' championship, having finished eighth the season before.

For the 2015 season, Raffaele Marciello, of the Ferrari Driver Academy, and René Binder joined the team from Racing Engineering and Arden International respectively. The team finished seventh overall.

The team entered 2016 with Philo Paz Armand and Luca Ghiotto being promoted from GP3. After a winless season the previous year, Ghiotto scored a victory at the sprint race in Malaysia bringing them to eighth in the standings.

Trident also competed in the GP2 Asia Series from its inception in 2008 to its cancellation in 2011. In the series' inaugural championship, the team fielded Harald Schlegelmilch and Ho-Pin Tung for a total of four points, finishing thirteenth and last in the teams' championship. For the 2008-09 season, Trident employed an unusually high number of seven drivers to share its two race seats: Giacomo Ricci, Alberto Valerio, Frankie Provenzano, Ricardo Teixeira, Chris van der Drift, Adrián Vallés and Davide Rigon all shared driving duties at some stage, propelling Trident to ninth in the teams' championship between them. In the 2009-10 season, the team reduced is roster two four drivers, with gentleman driver Plamen Kralev buying one seat for the entirety of the championship, and the other shared between Johnny Cecotto Jr., Dani Clos and Adrian Zaugg. This campaign was less successful, as the team slipped back to eleventh in the standings. The truncated 2011 season was Trident's best, as lead driver Stefano Coletti put in a strong showing to finish fourth in the drivers' table, with one win, a position replicated by the team in its own championship. In the other car, Rodolfo González failed to score.

Trident joined the GP3 Series for its third year of competition in 2012, replacing the departing Barwa Addax team. It became the first GP3 team to intentionally field two drivers instead of the usual three (although several other teams later dropped down to two-car entries for certain rounds), beginning the season with Vicky Piria and Antonio Spavone. For the fourth round of the championship at Silverstone, it expanded briefly to three cars for Giovanni Venturini, but Spavone's ride disappeared thereafter and the team once again returned to a two car set-up. Venturini was the most successful of the Italian trio, finishing on the podium twice and finishing thirteenth in the drivers' championship, in contrast to Piria and Spavone, who did not score. Trident finished ninth and last in the teams' championship.

The team enjoyed an upturn in performance in the following two seasons, with performances from Luca Ghiotto in 2015 and Antonio Fuoco in 2016, allowing them to finish second and third in the respective constructors championships.

In 2018, the team was represented by Giuliano Alesi, Ryan Tveter and Alessio Lorandi.[1][2][3] After Lorandi was promoted to Formula 2 prior to the Hungaroring round, David Beckmann was signed as his replacement.

In 2018 the team will be represented by Haas F1 test drivers Arjun Maini, Santino Ferrucci and Alessio Lorandi who switched from GP3 mid season after Ferrucci was banned for two rounds following a collision with teammate Arjun Maini at Silverstone,[4] then had his contract terminated citing sponsorship issues.

For the 2019 season, the team promoted Giuliano Alesi from their defunct GP3 division.[5] On 11 March 2019, Ralph Boschung was confirmed as his teammate. Ryan Tveter[6] replaced Boschung at the Red Bull Ring before being replaced by Dorian Boccolacci,[7] who had previously raced for Campos, for Silverstone. Boschung returned[8] for Hungary before stepping aside to relieve sponsorship issues at Monza for Giuliano Alesi who ran the sole car. Boschung returned for Sochi before being replaced by Christian Lundgaard[9] at Abu Dhabi.

For the 2020 season, the team hired new Williams development driver Roy Nissany who had not raced in 2019 due to a pre-season testing injury.[10] He is joined by 2019 Euroformula Open Champion Marino Sato[11] who raced for Campos Racing from Spa onwards where he failed to score a point.

In October 2018, Trident was listed among ten teams to compete in the inaugural FIA Formula 3 Championship. Their drivers will be Devlin DeFrancesco, Niko Kari, both of whom switched from MP Motorsport after competing with them in the GP3 Series; the latter moved to Formula 2 midway through the 2018 season, and Pedro Piquet, who raced for them in GP3. Piquet finished 5th on 98 points in the championship with a win at the first race at Spa being the highlight of his season. Devlin DeFrancesco finished in 25th with no points with a 9th place at the Red Bull Ring's Race 2 being the closest he got. Niko Kari finished 12th with 36 points and the highlights of his season were a third-place at Catalunya Race 2 and Sochi Race 1.

For the 2020 season, Trident signed ADAC Formula 4 champion Lirim Zendeli who moved from the Sauber Junior Team by Charouz where he finished 18th in 2019.[12] David Beckmann replaced Devlin DeFrancesco ahead of the latter's move to the 2020 Indy Pro 2000 Championship with Andretti Autosport in late June before a race had been run.[13]

2019 sees the introduction of the Macau Grand Prix as a non-championship event run to FIA Formula 3 car specifications after the season has ended. The 2019 Macau Grand Prix will be Trident's debut in the race. They are running Olli Caldwell,[14] David Beckmann[14] and Alessio Lorandi[15] meaning they are running a completely changed lineup from the 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship. The drivers qualified in the middle of the pack with Caldwell qualifying 17th, Beckmann in 19th and Lorandi in 14th. In the qualifying race, Beckmann and Lorandi were able to make it through the Lap 1 incident at Lisboa which got Beckmann 9th and Lorandi 7th with Caldwell being blocked by the incident to finish 23rd. Caldwell retired in the early stages of the Main Race to finish 29th whereas Beckmann retained his starting spot to finish 9th and Lorandi moved up to 5th from 7th.

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	FLaps	Podiums	T.C.	Pts
2017	Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome	Sergio Canamasas	14	0	0	0	0	10th	9
		Santino Ferrucci	10	0	0	0	0
		Nabil Jeffri	22	0	0	0	0
		Callum Ilott	2	0	0	0	0
		Raffaele Marciello	2	0	0	0	0
2018	Dallara F2 2018-Mecachrome	Arjun Maini	23	0	0	0	0	10th	37
		Santino Ferrucci	13	0	0	0	0
		Alessio Lorandi	10	0	0	0	0
2019	Dallara F2 2018-Mecachrome	Giuliano Alesi	22	0	1[lower-alpha 1]	0	0	10th	23
		Ralph Boschung	14	0	0	0	0
		Ryan Tveter	2	0	0	0	0
		Dorian Boccolacci	2	0	0	0	0
		Christian Lundgaard	2	0	0	0	0
2020	Dallara F2 2018-Mecachrome	Roy Nissany	24		1	2		11th*	5*
		Marino Sato	22

^* Season still in progress.

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Chassis Engine Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	T.C.	Points
2017	GP2/11 Mecachrome P		BHR FEA	BHR SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	BAK FEA	BAK SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	JER FEA	JER SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR			10th	9
		Nabil Jeffri	19	16	18	18	14	11	Ret	17	18	12	15	18	12	15	11	15	12	17	9	15	Ret	16
		Sergio Canamasas	14	11	Ret	11	10	17	9	15
		Raffaele Marciello									19	Ret
		Callum Ilott											19	14
		Santino Ferrucci													9	14	9	10	Ret	14	Ret	13	14	15
2018	F2 2018 Mecachrome P		BHR FEA	BHR SPR	BAK FEA	BAK SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	LEC FEA	LEC SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SOC FEA	SOC SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	10th	37
		Arjun Maini	15	14	Ret	5	Ret	13	5	5	10	13	14	10	14	13	12	14	14	8	Ret	9	15	15	Ret	DNS
		Santino Ferrucci	14	20	11	6	DNS	11	13	12†	13	9	10	7	16	DSQ
		Alessio Lorandi															14	Ret	13	15	15	12	7	Ret	13	14
2019	F2 2018 Mecachrome P		BHR FEA	BHR SPR	BAK FEA	BAK SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	LEC FEA	LEC SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SOC FEA	SOC SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	10th	23
		Giuliano Alesi	12	DSQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	16	11	Ret	10	14	13	Ret	17	Ret	13	12	C	C	7	7	13	8	8	5
		Ralph Boschung	11	14	12	Ret	10	10	9	Ret	Ret	15					18†	18	C	C			14	12
		Ryan Tveter											15	16
		Dorian Boccolacci													Ret	14
		Christian Lundgaard																							14	12
2020	F2 2018 Mecachrome P		RBR FEA	RBR SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	MUG FEA	MUG SPR	SOC FEA	SOC SPR	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	11th	6
		Roy Nissany	10	12	15	18	Ret	17	Ret	16	18	15	Ret	12	8	Ret	19	10	15	10	Ret	19	15	9	20	15
		Marino Sato	Ret	17	16	Ret	Ret	20	20	12	17	17	15	21	14	Ret	20	13	14	8	13	15	20	11	17	16
2021	F2 2018 Mecachrome P		BHR 1	BHR 2	BHR 3	MON 1	MON 2	MON 3	BAK 1	BAK 2	BAK 3	SIL 1	SIL 2	SIL 3	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	MNZ 3	SOC 1	SOC 2	SOC 3	JED 1	JED 2	JED 3	YMC 1	YMC 2	YMC 3
		TBA
		TBA

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	Podiums	FLaps	T.C.	Pts
2019	Dallara F3 2019-Mecachrome	Devlin DeFrancesco	16	0	0	0	0	4th	134
		Pedro Piquet	16	1	0	1	3
		Niko Kari	16	0	0	0	2
2020*	Dallara F3 2019-Mecachrome	Lirim Zendeli	18	1	2	1	3	2nd	261.5
		David Beckmann	18	2			5
		Olli Caldwell	18

^* Season still in progress.

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Chassis Engine Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	T.C.	Points
2019	F3 2019 Mecachrome P		CAT FEA	CAT SPR	LEC FEA	LEC SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SOC FEA	SOC SPR			4th	134
		Devlin DeFrancesco	23	20	21†	21	17	9	27	17	12	11	29	Ret	12	16	23	12
		Pedro Piquet	26	16	3	2	6	15	6	27†	Ret	27	1	6	5	5	6	Ret
		Niko Kari	8	3	18	24†	11	8	18	19	14	12	19	Ret	Ret	15	3	5
2020	F3 2019 Mecachrome P		RBR FEA	RBR SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	MUG FEA	MUG SPR	2nd	261.5
		Lirim Zendeli	5	5	2	10	Ret	16	13	11	9	2	12	16	1	8	7	4	4	Ret
		David Beckmann	7	4	3	3	10	1	9	1	5	4	5	9	3	9	4	Ret	8	2
		Olli Caldwell	20	19	5	6	21	18	Ret	26	21	22	20	Ret	7	11	Ret	9	17	16

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	FLaps	D.C.	Pts	T.C.	Pts
2008	Dallara-Mecachrome	Harald Schlegelmilch	10	0	0	0	18th	3	13th	4
		Ho-Pin Tung	10	0	0	0	21st	1
2008-09	Dallara-Mecachrome	Davide Rigon	6	0	0	0	17th	6	9th	11
		Chris van der Drift	3	0	0	0	18th	5
		Giacomo Ricci	2	0	0	0	27th†	0
		Frankie Provenzano	4	0	0	0	35th	0
		Alberto Valerio	1	0	0	0	37th	0
		Ricardo Teixeira	4	0	0	0	38th	0
		Adrián Vallés	2	0	0	0	40th	0
2009-10	Dallara-Mecachrome	Johnny Cecotto Jr.	2	0	0	0	17th	3	11th	4
		Adrian Zaugg	2	0	0	0	19th	1
		Dani Clos	4	0	0	0	27th	0
		Plamen Kralev	8	0	0	0	33rd	0
2011	Dallara-Mecachrome	Stefano Coletti	4	1	0	0	4th	11	4th	11
		Rodolfo González	4	0	0	0	17th	0

† Ricci also drive for the David Price Racing team.